Abstract: Correspondence related to the academic career and writings of Andrew F.
Rolle. Includes copies of outgoing correspondence from Rolle and incoming letters
from colleagues, including Ray Allen Billington, Louis B. Wright, and K. Ross Toole.
The letters focus on Rolle's published books and articles, including those on
Italian-Americans in the Western United States.

Language of Material: The records are in English.

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Gift of Andrew F. Rolle, December 15, 2010. Some material in library as of
c.1983.

Biography

California and Western American historian Andrew F. Rolle graduated from Occidental
College in 1943. He served as a military intelligence officer in Europe and as
American Vice Consul in Genoa, Italy, from 1945 to 1948. He earned a PhD in history
from UCLA in 1953 and taught at Occidental College from 1953 to 1988. Rolle studied
psychoanalysis at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1976 and
specialized in psychohistory. His published works include California: a history
(1963), The Italian-Americans: troubled roots (1980), and John Charles Fremont:
character as destiny (1991).

Scope and Content

Correspondence related to the academic career of Andrew F. Rolle. Includes copies of
outgoing correspondence from Rolle as well as letters from his colleagues Ray Allen
Billington, Louis B. Wright, and K. Ross Toole. Most of the correspondence focuses
on Rolle’s published books and articles, including those on Italian-Americans in the
Western United States, various articles written for the Historical Society of
Montana, writings on the history of Occidental College, the manuscript “Flight Below
the Border” (1959), and the article “The Historic Past of the Unconscious” (1980).
The collection also includes some personal correspondence and references to other
historians, including Robert Glass Cleland. Also included are newspaper articles and
ephemera relating to Billington’s death in 1981.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically.

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